Former sports editor and columnist Larry Casey paid a visit recently to where he first began his career – the Michigan Chronicle. Casey, who is now retired and lives in Chicago, was in Detroit as part of a group touring the Motor City.

In the summer following his junior year at Highland Park High School in 1949, Casey began working as a sports reporter with the Michigan Chronicle, covering high school sports as well as amateur sporting events. Upon graduating from Highland Park in June 1950, he enrolled in Highland Park Junior College and continued working at the

      The 34th Michigan State Junior Boys’ Golf Championship will be held Aug. 2-3 at A-GA-MING Golf Club in Kewaden, Mich. The tournament is conducted by the Michigan State Amateur Golf Association.

      The tournament is open to all Michigan resident boys 13-17 years of age who has a USGA handicap index of 10.5 and under. Deadline for entries for the biggest prize in Michigan boys’ golf is Monday, July 24. For entry forms and information, call the Michigan State Amateur Golf Association at (517) 918-2625 or email at ...

      The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) announced that 23 college students, including four from Michigan, are participating in the seventh annual NASCAR Diversity Internship Program. The program, which began last month and runs through Aug. 12, gives college students the opportunity to complete a 10-week, paid summer internship within the NASCAR industry.  

      The NASCAR Diversity Internship Program features internships offered by NASCAR offices, sponsors, licensees, teams, tracks and broadcast partners. In addition to NASCAR corporate offices, the

      Okay, we all love baseball, football, basketball, and in certain parts of the country, hockey, here in the good ol’ USA. However, the sports planet in which we all are members have a different viewpoint on what sport galvanizes its populace into a zealous frenzy.

Soccer, although scorned and ignored at the professional level in the United States, is the top dawg as a sport in the entire world – basketball is a close second.

      Soccer’s version of the Super Bowl and Olympics recently concluded with France succumbing to Italy in an overtime game

      Detroiter Lindsey Mason III has taken the sport he loves and used it in a way to help Detroit’s young people. The former golf pro is the Head Pro and Manager at the Belle Isle Driving Range and Practice Center on the island, as well as the Rogell Park Golf Club on Seven Mile and Berg Road. He teaches golf lessons to help Detroit area youth through programs set up by him and local organizations.

      “We start teaching students from as young as 3 to adult age,” said Mason, who works with Think Detroit/PAL, the Reggie Mackenzie Foundation, the Next Vision